#dissipate

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#come #dissipated #done #get #great

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#marriage #opposition #same-sex #same-sex marriage #take

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#cloud #dissipate #doubt #figures #never

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#affirm #any #consequence #dissipate #doubts

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#both #certain #certainty #dissipate #dogmatism

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#darkness #dissipate #education #general #mind